# Experienced Practice Nurse - Crays PCN

**Company**: Bromley GP Alliance Ltd
**Location**: St Pauls Cray
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £20.44 to £24.61
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Crays PCN is a network of 6 GP surgeries working together to deliver high-quality, evidence-based nursing care.

The Experienced Practice Nurse (ARRS) will work as an integral member of the Primary Care Network multidisciplinary team, delivering a comprehensive range of nursing services including chronic disease management, cervical screening, vaccination and immunisation programmes, health promotion, and preventative care.

**Main duties of the job**

- Deliver routine and enhanced nursing services across PCN practices.

- Undertake chronic disease reviews and management for patients with long-term conditions.

- Provide cervical screening services in line with national standards.

- Deliver vaccination and immunisation programmes for adults and children.

- Support proactive care for frail, complex and housebound patients.

- Carry out clinical assessments, investigations and treatment within competence.

- Promote health education, self-management and disease prevention.

- Contribute to population health initiatives and health inequalities programmes.

- Maintain accurate clinical records and contribute to service development.

- Work collaboratively across practices and multidisciplinary teams to improve patient outcomes.

**Responsibilities**

- Long-Term Condition Management: Undertake and manage reviews for patients with long-term conditions including diabetes, asthma, COPD, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and chronic kidney disease.

- Cervical Screening: Deliver cervical screening appointments in accordance with NHS Cervical Screening Programme requirements.

- Vaccinations and Immunisations: Deliver childhood and adult immunisation programmes.

- Housebound Patient Care: Deliver nursing care to housebound patients across the PCN.

- Treatment Room Services: Provide venepuncture, blood pressure monitoring, ECG recording, wound care and dressings, ear care, health assessments and screening, and lifestyle and wellbeing advice.

- Preventative Care and Health Promotion: Provide health education and behaviour change interventions.

- Care Coordination and MDT Working: Work collaboratively with GP practices, PCN clinical teams, community nursing services, pharmacy teams, social prescribing teams, mental health practitioners, and secondary care providers.

- Governance, Quality and Safety: Maintain clear, accurate and contemporaneous clinical records.

- Leadership and Service Development: Support development of nursing services across the PCN.

**Person Specification**

- Essential qualifications: Registered Nurse (Adult) with current NMC registration, Diploma or Degree in Nursing, Cervical Screening Qualification and current competency, Immunisation and Vaccination Training.

- Essential experience: Significant experience working as a Practice Nurse within Primary Care, experience of managing patients with long-term conditions, experience undertaking cervical screening, experience delivering adult and childhood immunisation programmes.

- Desirable qualifications: Diabetes Diploma or equivalent chronic disease qualification, experience delivering care to housebound and frail patients.

## Skills

### Required
- primary care nursing
- chronic disease management
- cervical screening
- vaccination and immunisation
- health promotion
- preventative care
- clinical assessment
- decision-making
- communication
- interpersonal skills
- time management
- organisational skills

### Nice to have
- diabetes diploma
- experience working across multiple GP practices or PCNs
- experience delivering care to housebound and frail patients

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